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UN EDUCATION. FOR THE sEN. [LETTER ll.] Err-fon,—lt iz= not for me to rebuke you for corduciing your Journal upon principles con genial with the sentiments you entertain upon the great leading questions of policy in Church and Sr:,te ; and very far from my wish or inten- /ion was it to call there in question, since it is fr,ut an approval of thoso principles that 1 have been induced to trouble you with my opinions upon certain topics in which they are vitally con- coned. You say, in your observations upon my former Letter, that had I " read your observa tions on the following day (after the insertion of the account of "lhe British and Foreign School Society'), I should find that you had strenuously condemned Mr. Brougham for hi: attempt to mingle politics With a meeting which had profess edit' nothing to do with politics, but was apparent ly intended for the charitable purpose of diffusing the advantages of Educatiou among the interior classes of Society." You add, further, that you bad before " animadverted upon the attempt of Mr. Broti halo to derive popularity, by endeavouring to disturb venerable Establishments conducted by persons of unimpeachable character, &c." Now, it appears from these observations, either that you had very cu iy r ead over my Letter, or that the positions which I therein attempted to make good were untenable, or insufficient to carry conviction to your mind; for my object was not to prove that Mr. Brougham hacl obtruded hunself or his Politics upon the Meeting of " The British and Foreign School Society," but that the prin ciples of the said Society were in perfect con formity with those of Mr. Brougham, and that he attended and addressed the Meeting as one of the patrons and supporters of all Societies whose object is to undermine the foundations of our Church Establishment, in order more securely to root out those feelings of attachment and loyalty by which our inestimable Constitution has hither to been upheld and maintained in its strength and purity. This is a very different thing from any attempt, upon which you may have animadverted, " to disturb venerable Establishments," by the obtrusion of politics, for the sake of populaiity. Here the essential property of the Establishment is to undermine every thing venerable in either Church or State ; and Mr. Brougham was not only no intruder, but an essential instrument to give po pulitrity to the Society, and not to obtain it for himself. The fact is, The Edinburgh Review, in which this active citizen first plumed his wings tor a political flight, was established upon the principles, and after the design of the French Encyclopedists, and by men of similar habits, temper, and prejudices. When the vigorous efforts of Mr. Pitt to suppress the daring attempts of organized Jacobinism in this country had roused the latent feelings of loyalty, and respect for social order ; when the open and daring attempts t'o establish a Republic under the auspices of men like Palmer, Muir, and Gerald, had issued in the Ilia! ant: condemnation of its promoters ; the suc cessful labours of the French Philosophists offered an example and encouragement to men possessed of - higher talents, but with Unmitigated zeal in The Cause, to adopt a more progressive,- but not less certain, mode of corrupting the mass of the people to their purpose. The country — that is the great majority of the nation, holding fast by the opinions which their ancestors had transmitted to them as the spring and support of the Constitution, were unfit and unprepared for the reception of those desperate principles to which the French Revolution bad given birth. A political work, under the form of a Review, was therefore most aptly and artfully supplied to the Public, by a Junto of Briefless Lawyers, aspiring Adventurers, hoary Metaphysicians, and avowed Freethinkers, who laboured so successfully in their vocations, that in a very few years, every opinion that had been deemed sacred and consti tutional, with respect to our National Establish ments, was loosened at its very foundation, and the very schoolboys encouraged to spurn at ali received notions as prejudices, at religion as pie , tcraft, and attachm6nt to country as founded in n arrow and illiberal views of the nature of things. It is, Sir, to this Review that I feel my self justified in ascribing all that laxity of prin eple, that indifference to moral conduct, and that political corruption, which darken the fair face and form .of our loved country in the pre sent moment. It is, you will say, assigning a high rank to a single publication, to trace such consequences to the extent of influencing the minds of a large proportion of the people of an e\tensi ye e mpire ; but the credit is due, and I have no wish to withhold it ; and those who have pros tituted the talents which were bestowed upon leiu tor better purposes, to such a use, are fully entitte(l, and Are left to enjoy the glory unmo lested by any thing but the sting 3 of their own consciclicc , , Hutt the contempt of the virtuous ;and uncorrupted ruction of their countrymen. If the sentiments of this Review assume a character of greater moderation, or are now given in a more subdued tone, it is not from any conviction of former errors, nor can it be. mistaken for a dis position to recant them. Success has engendered a degree of indolence, the speculators and projec tors of the year 1802 are no longer to be found in the Cellars or Fiats, the scenes of their primi tive institution, but translated to time English Metropolis, rolling in their carriages, and taking their seats among the Legislators of the Country. They are no longer brieliess Lawyers or pining Adventurers—the great object of their union i 3 achieved, and if the plans they revolved for the regeneration of their country be not yet realized, they themselves at least have reaped the h a rvest of their principles, and have revolutionized their own lot in life. Mr. Brougham, Sir, was 9n original known and acknowledged writer in this Review. We are not, therefore, at a loss to know what are his real principles ; however the forms of public life, and the convenient use of general propositions, may aid to disguise them from the unthinking pot tion of the community; and as we have constantly been instructed in that publication to treat with contempt,all those opi nions w hi c h h a ve derived their sanction from antiquity, and all National lostitutions connect ed with what are called the prejudices of those who have gone before its, we have little difficulty in discerning and appreciating the motives of this now Lull-fledged Statesman in pursuing an object so long defined, and to be traced in a direct line to the principles originally laid down in his theoretical lucubrations. I have adduced in my former letter an authority for the measures now platting by those who are hostile to our Esta blishment in the Church. Ido not charge upon the Honourable Gentleman a predilection for any one of the hundred and one divisions of Sects Ppposed to the Church of England. I give him credit for maintaining a strict impartiality on this head. Nothing is marked but his enmity to wards the object of their combined hostiloy—and this may be considered as the bond ot onion by which his services are retained for THEIR common use and benefit. The Edinburgh Review has, it is tune, been occasionally sportive, through the me dium of clerical wit, upon the follies and absurdi ties of Methodism, but these are to be pardoned as the occasional sallies of a wanton and redund ant ituaginatioo, let loose for the purpose of en livening or relieving the more sombre shades of Scotch metaphysics, or the monotonous diatribes against orthodox Divines. The scope and design of the work have uniformly betrayed themselves in a systematic hostility against what: are de scribed tinder the generic term of " Old English Principles," and to overlay them with a super stratum of French Philosophism, and modified Ja cobiuism. Is it not then time, Sir, to look als‘oit us, when w e see gradually developing itself throogo a succession of measures, gonialedly conceeling their ultimate object, a scheme for carrying into active agency, a principle which has mice already, in this Country, been successfully em ployed to overthrow the Constitution Are we to behold in silence, and without warning our Cutin trymen, the very sante machinery ot Commutee%, through whose instrumentality Cromwell achieved all his atrocious and ambitious designs, multiply ing and concentrating the power of the three estates, and vesting themselves with a power known only in the practice of the lioptisittens or its faithful Copy, represented during the ascen dancy of a Protector, more absolute than any Monarch that ever sat tipon the Throne of these Realms ? No, Sir, if the Liberty ot the Press be vindicated to its utmost licence, to serve the purposes of these self-created patriots, it shall also find advocates ott the side of the Constitution, who can and will wield it for the exposure of po litical and spiritual hypocrisy, and of designs that teens with danger and mischief to those ob jects most desired in life by honest and upright men of every class and description of civilized society. I cannot at present pursue the 'object further, but I feel that in closing this letter, 1 shall meet with your indulgence, Sir, if I again recur to the opinions which I ventured to oiret in my last. Your word is amply sufficient to con. vinee me I was wrong in supposing that the ar ticle respecting " the British and Foreign School Society" was paid for in your Paper; but 1 do assert, and assert without fear of contradiction, that it was originally paid 'for in the Journals which first inserted it. There is a fund in every one of these charitable institutions, for the pur pose of publishing speeches, and for giving cur rency, through the press, to their proceedings ; and your account of a Meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society (a twin brother of the School Society) was also paid for, and well pail for, in the Provincial Paper from which ;it was taken. Nay in some instances (I speak to the tact), a larger proportion is taken from the sub scriptions of charitable persons, for the purpose of paragraphs and placards, t h an goes directly to the professed objects and purposes for which sub scriptions are solicited. Such is the anxiety, such the zeal, with which every Dissenting Society, within or without the Church, is forced forward upon the public notice; such is the blindness and perverseness of faction, in politics or religion, that no means are thought too low, no union too inconsistent, that can tend to give force or cur rency to the object it has in view. Look, Sir, to the fact ; read the lists of supporters to associa tions of this nature, and you will find clubbed to gether and united its a fraternal knot, the hardy infidel and the fierce bigot, the. puling saint and the vain scoffer, professing liberally to merge all differences of opinion or di3tinctimiot creed, to carry on the good work of overthrowing the Church, and eventually (as a consequence appa rently inevitable) the State and Constitution of Englantl.—l our Sir, .&c. rENTON WYKE. ,yr NINE O'CLOCK NEXT TUESDAY _MORNING, TWO PRIZES OF I .30,000, TWO PRIZES OF L. 2,000, 1,000 SOVEREIGNS, &c. WITH GOLD, CLARET, PORT, MADEIRA. ALL MUST BE DRAWN NEXT TUTS DAY.—LOTTERY FINISHES. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. itnYm„ HAvmmtxt:T.—The Green Man: Princi pal Characters by Ml... Tones :tuft Mrs. Glover. After which, Teasing. matte Easy. TrsEATRE !Low., ENaLtsa OPERA, STRAND.—Doctor Artipadiades, Mr. Harley; Queen Eatalinda, Miss Kelly. After which, The Blind Boy. To which was added, The Death of Captain COO%. 1 ".. , For the I.:TrizAtty REVIEW, See the First PageLtd.fur Ti' COUNTRY, see the Last Page. MAILS. :ARRIVED-1 Dn!Jlin, I Waterford, 1 Guernsey" and Jersey, 1 New York and Halifax. DUE-1 Waterford, 1 S‘veden,_l_llainburgh, 1 Lisbon, I Malta. PRICE 0 F STOCKS Ets o'cuoCK. THIS I , AY AT T Banl: Stock 4734. 273 a per Cent. T 1 :3 per Cent. C0n5....751i141i 31 per Cent 86P, 4 per Cents. 9SIT, 5 per Ct. N. Ann. luSli 1043 Bank L. Ana. 20 7-1 C 5-le2f India 1300(15......85s 87s. pr. Ex. Bilk, 2d. 20s. 18s 19s. pr. Dittn,24d.. iSs. pr. Oniniam..dis. 3 27 3 -4 3 FILCH WATER AT LONDON BRIDC;E TO-MORROW. Morning, 34 minutes atter 4. Evening, 57 minutes after 4. TIM SUN. 8 OLEM QUI% DICEKE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, ,AUGUST 19, ISIS. We mentioned yesterday that none of the Paris Journals were to he published on Sunday, on ac count of the Festival or the Assumption. No Papers have in consequence arrived from thence this morning. The Reports which have been circulated of the expected return or recal of Lord HASTINGS from India, we can POSITIVELY STATE, are wholly without foundation. We yesterday contradicted the silly rumours of Ministerial Changes, and we again pronounce them to be the mere fabrications of Party. By the Letters from Nova Scotia of the 19th and 20th ultimo, which we received this morning, it appears that the Instructions recently sent out respecting the Encroachments of the American Fishermen on the Coasts of British North Ame rica are similar to those of last year ; namely— " That when found hovering upon the Coasts, they are to be watned off, anti it found in the " Bays or Harbours, to be seized, and brought " in for trial."—We are happy to find this to be the case, and we hope that no relaxation will take place in those Instructions. This morning we received Halifax Papers to the 21st ult.; New York also came to hand, but nut of a later date than those previously re- ceivcd : (From Th.' . Halifax Journal of July 20.) " Louishurgh, June 10. " GENTLEMEN,—The Americans will destroy the Fisheries in the Straits and on the Labradore shore. They have lett the Banks, where they were disappointed in their expectations of success; - upwartis of 100 sail have gone to the Straits, and the others have returned to the United States to be fitted for the Labradore. From accounts we have received, there are upwards of 800 sail of American vessels bound to the Straits ; if they are allowed to take our fishing ground we shall not succeed in obtaining cargoes. The Fishing Establishment, formed at Halifax, will prove a loosing concern. It will be necessary to inform the ships of war on that station, that the Ame ricans always go further to the North than they go in search of them, and where our principa Fishery is.---Your's, &c. (Signed) cc 3011 N LYLE, Sm.' [From the same Paper.l BOSTON, JULY 16.—Since the execution of ARBUTHNOT, &c., particularly since the arrival of the Express, the conferences between the Spanish and British Embassies were more frequent and of longer duration than heretofore. It is our painful task to inform our Readers that the woods have taken fire between Liverpool and Port Mutton, and burnt from Hauts Port to the Western Head. The ravages have been dread ful. Eight buildings, four or five dwelling-houses, and almost all the clops of grain, grass, and potatoes, together with an immense quantity of timber, have been burnt We have received some interesting communi cations from our Colonies this day, but too late for insertion. They shall appear to-morrow. 'We present to our Readers this day the Second Letter signed FENTON WYKa, which we again assure them comes from one of the most learned, able, and loyal characters in the United Kingdom; a Gentleman, whose situation and property place him far al on,: all considerations of personal in terest. We can truly add, in our confident belief, that no person, at any rriod, has had more at heart the general welfare of the Country, and par- tirolarly the t of our Ecclesiastical Elahh` brne4 ; herd We find that we did not sufficiently appr , :-e tendency of his first letter, but we are pel.s('' that w e were mor e likely to be in the wii a4"3‘l 11 , he was, an d, therefore, we submit with entire (. Terence to the sentiments of so resp Pct able a 14311i 1 : tor. But we were, indeed, so much disgusted the conduct of Mr. BROUGHAM On the occasi°lLa I'°°ll ' hided to, who, in the presence of the 13 ROYAL, obtruded his offensive and niischievollif politics on a Meeting intended, as we CO for the pure object of EDUCATION among Cle i af l # riot orders, and the diffusion o f sonod f10%5 throughout the Empire, t h at we dul not eiently consider the character and views of the stitution to which the Meeting rehiterl. 134 readily accept the account which FEtaTot4 has given of that Institution and its obj ect-i d sil relying upon his knowledge, judgment, o candour, and hope that by hi s 05sisu't.ncii; they will be fully understood by the at large.—We repeat, that we h ave ll° PI pose in view but the welfare of the CoaoPY' more particularly of its Chr/T.oox CAURCII lILISHMENT. NV , ! sls ill at all tiMe3 be food arie our post to support that Es ib.isnment, slid call upon the authorized Members of to exert themselves res,,lutely in the same la able cause ; a cause, indeed, in which not ol l s i a our Iteligion, but absolutely our poli iical I t o ; istence, is essentially concerned. It ,h as Of those ati been thought that the great body thorized Members have been too langui d B d t %,/ supine in support of a cause upon present and our future happiness depend , ° ": 1 1 st again assure them, that our columns ' ln " . t o all times be freely and gratuitously o" respect them. We have therefore A RIGHT t ° 4 el that they will exert themselves, a nd p t st lf will zealously support a Journal whiCil r'ice, the Chutc s to devote itself to so meritorious a s ei 7 ro , Nor have we less A RIGHT to look t° 6° l s f i l at meet for equal zeal in supporting a journil vvf from its origin to the present moment 14115ii)lef formly and strenuously upheld the P rlic , e Ol of the wisest and most disintereste d of Statesilips' the immortal PlTT,—principles which Wed„r nifested their soundness and t. fficacyr as tile sd tion of them by the present Administratirrid the perseverance with which they ha ve c ol t/ them into pramice, have ra ised this C ijuij o iod a height of glory which it never ha a st o ft i before, in rendeting Great Britain the O r of EUROPE, and in restoring to Europe 11' (him and Independence. JOHg PALMER, n e ll --.4 10 . ------ o w ffi ho ce se of p ublic a n n announcing Esq.—We have the roelseofor isliellc.viiiicgetshaeradiepatehrsoofnatl; isivGerlilos tvic,l6 him to the regret of the Country at °re:I'l l: elit ii: needless ell Establishment alalebsewatlsi.lessi augmentation {'re ({s, as of a very wide circle of private fit of t he i itt# itifil r oetin.h ti tt s i,hs i t eaG portant benefits which the nation ba s (.ef t 1 0 ;1 11' ; 1 w l)ic i/ t,i improvement Establishment isilmeonft the i : p a l ii i " t 1 0i :Pi national interest, and indeed the i n tere s oo t , v c whole civilized world tnaterially tielte4s'ol of n a t n h e s 0 cillgeess•et enttite,oo-,3 Col;rfriice...: dwell on the convenience a nd happiness ' P is plan was the subject many affords iu the intercourse of private r ife ' .io tis 1, all' e , years of w e iie ili.i. meditation and unceasing imptirid of t votr id nious Projector, w ho l e ft no mean s , Ile t; r o regardless of labour or expense , t it s ` ' 11( fully arranged it into a practicable sloPe' 00' i to 0° this important measure was submittet' o f, 0 1 ment, its simplicity, clearness, ol d effic te tb ° ,j Gentleman our Readers 0.1 .vei, ii i l e t et • e d t tot peered so manifest that it was at once 13 ` 1°11 ' ii sio'' to the Au ' was properly assigo o bee 0' carrying it into execution. It does Ilut I be ' 7 , to animadvert on they difficulties wl' ici r cic / ro c c / o il' countered in his progress, or on the 0 1 erio te liii cumstances which prevented him from ° T og o ,io ing the admirable success of his pitio assooderi, and health would permit, but we are V r 0(d .f he had chiefly the welfare of tit° C , ( . rij fot it' c, fled 11" ri ° heart, and that whatever happe- - P . 1 1° tir'' and objects were directed to that en( ' . es o it 0 til ,11 WO" IP life, it is impossible to say too mu ch ° t'' ', ?' ness of his understanding and the il OP jilted ill' disposition. lie was well }le g° I , s i' o r $ v , 5Y if abounded in anecdote, and bed a rrsll 11° opt 1 Y e° 0 51 '' manners that made every b° l d t ile° , if IIII : V ' pi °ached him, and convince tile i 1( 1 ' could render them any be sure of hie assistance. we CO 4 1 ' el , vice , 0 061 o'' Nor, to obi c o affirm, were any disappointed ill 5 , r ,Ol Ol til' The 1 ,I, ,i' Atice is ~ tv ., 1 , titliiisgmhtaidlneseer:vtevii;iicsh p,:etrloltatva:e: anio, that, ,o,.;ii dreao, A i'.' tiered him so agreeable a co:P oo r d vii n l o r r i s e d 0 . , neral knowledge, dition to his good s ense, Is .5 c ot 1 ,d.. 1 , •t; t' t i iro Dt' erg 1 r ' le most distinguished elinrart ,ode . itll , 0 ru , ~. 0 Ills cokiduct uniformly tendett ' , ol ots 1\ Vat tli c of such cuuutenance • his s ocietY w ",, Co d ' 400' b t „, t o \I: At t .( 11( I L ,„ Ilil ost ti s II t'! 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